A global 0.05° maximum albedo dataset of snow-covered land based on MODIS observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 1-5

  Barlage, Michael ^a   Zeng, Xubin ^a   Wei, Helin ^b   Mitchell, Kenneth E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SATELLITES; SENSORS; SNOW; SOLAR RADIATION; SPECTROMETERS;

MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETER (MODIS); SNOW COVERED LAND; SNOWMELT ALBEDO;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

ALBEDO; DATA PROCESSING; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW COVER;

EID: 27544467156     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL022881     Document Type: Article

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